I've been saying for 10+ years that browsers will integrate more and more into the OS until they become another layer that users aren't even aware of. Sort of like Electron. Imagine web apps that can render native widgets and show up in the taskbar separately.
This is just another inevitable step towards that. The only concern is how secure this will be, and from the sounds of it, the answer is not very. Still, it's inevitable that some form of this will become popular.
I've been saying for 10+ years that browsers will integrate more and more into the OS until they become another layer that users aren't even aware of. Sort of like Electron. Imagine web apps that can render native widgets and show up in the taskbar separately.
This is just another inevitable step towards that. The only concern is how secure this will be, and from the sounds of it, the answer is not very. Still, it's inevitable that some form of this will become popular.